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Kaan Terzioglu
VEON Group, Chief Executive Officer
Speaker Bio
Kaan Terzioglu is the Group Chief Executive Officer of VEON Group and a Board Member at VEON, a Nasdaq-listed company that serves nearly 160 million customers with connectivity and more than 140 million monthly active users with digital services in 5 markets. As the Group CEO, Terzioglu leads the executive teams VEON’s operating companies in Pakistan, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as well as the Group Leadership Team.
Terzioglu is a Board Member of the GSMA and the Chair of the GSMA Foundation. In 2019, Mr. Terzioglu received GSMA’s “Outstanding Contribution to the Industry” award for his leadership in defining a digital transformation model for the telecoms industry, and for his contributions to socially responsible business.
Prior to his current role as the Group CEO, Terzioglu served VEON Group as a Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chief Operating Officer and a Board member. Between June 2019 and March 2024, Terzioglu served as a member of Digicel Group Board of Directors.
Prior to joining VEON, Mr. Terzioglu was the CEO of Turkcell Group from 2015 to 2019. Before that, he was a board member at Turkey’s leading banking, retail, technology and pharmaceutical companies from 2012 to 2015. He held regional and global leadership roles in management consulting, technology and telecommunications with Arthur Andersen from 1990 to 1999 and CISCO from 1999 to 2012 in Turkey, Belgium and the U.S.
Mr. Terzioglu holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Bogazici University and is a Certified Public Accountant (Istanbul Chamber of Certified Independent Public Accountants).
He is married to Catherine Varsami Terzioglu.